and she was aware of an ache in her chest. Her second girl, Lavanika’s first little sister, would be about the same age . . . She tore her gaze away. Stop it. Done is done.
“Even the smallest person can change the course of the future”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
― The Fellowship of the Ring
“You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,” Maisie said. I couldn’t, and I don’t. Nor do I pretend that all of us being together doesn’t fill me with joy. I understand that joy is inappropriate these days and still, we feel what we feel.”
― Tom Lake
― Tom Lake
“Dr. Hoffman told me the word kumbaya was originally an African American spiritual, a song that was also a prayer asking for divine intervention, asking for help in dire times, and that then the hippies in the sixties took it and sang it to mean unity amid protest, and then it got played out and became a stand-in for corniness about togetherness.”
― Wandering Stars
― Wandering Stars
“Stories do more than comfort. They take you away and bring you back better made.”
― Wandering Stars
― Wandering Stars
“putting on a show to ultimately wield power for control, and though this fact existed in his head as a truth, it was kept a kind of secret, which hurt to keep, which hurt to carry, like so many unspoken truths one privately knew one really didn’t want to know about oneself.”
― Wandering Stars
― Wandering Stars
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